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Author Till, Geoffrey, author.

Title The real "long war" [electronic resource] : the illicit drug trade and the role of the military / Geoffrey Till.

Publication Info. Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 64 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file PDF rda
Series The Letort papers
Letort papers.
Note "September 2013."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-64).
Contents Introduction -- Scaling the threat. Introduction -- The threat to the individual -- The threat to the state -- The threat to the system -- Assessing the overall threat -- The military contribution to the war on drugs. The individual level : attacking demand -- The state level : attacking production -- The system level : attacking the transportation of illicit drugs -- Facilitative defense diplomacy -- Conclusions and implications for the U.S. military. Some tentative conclusions -- Significance for the U.S. military.
Summary The 21st century has seen the growth of a number of nontraditional threats to international stability on which, trade, and thus U.S. peace and security, depends, and for the moment at least a reduced likelihood of continental scale warfighting operations, and something of a de-emphasis on major involvement in counterinsurgency operations. These nontraditional threats are, however, very real and should command a higher priority than they have done in the past, even in a period of budgetary constraint. The military have cost-effective contributions to make in countering the manufacture and distribution of illicit drugs, and in many cases can do so without serious detriment to their main warfighting role. Successfully completing this mission, however, will require the military to rethink their integration with the nonmilitary aspects of a whole-of-government approach, and almost certainly, their institutional preference for speedy victories in short wars.
Note Description based on PDF version; title from title screen (viewed on September 25, 2013).
Subject Drug traffic -- United States.
Drug control -- United States.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Civic action.
Armed Forces -- Civic action. (OCoLC)fst00814593
Drug control. (OCoLC)fst01032891
Drug traffic. (OCoLC)fst00898722
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.
Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.
Other Form: Print version: Till, Geoffrey. Real "long war" (DLC) 2013496768 (OCoLC)861789812
ISBN 1584875917
9781584875918
Standard No. NLGGC 369601254
Gpo Item No. 0307-A-18 (online)
Sudoc No. D 101.146/3:D 84

 
    
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